What Is in the 2025–2028 Strategic Plan for SDSU's College of Health and Human Services?

The College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) at San Diego State University has published a three-year strategic plan covering 2025–2028. According to the college, the plan sets out "ambitious, collaborative and community-focused vision, goals and objectives" to guide its decisions and grow resources over that period. It is relevant if you want to understand where CHHS is directing its academic programs, research, and community partnerships through 2028 — for example, as a prospective student, a community partner, or a potential funder. The full plan is available as a downloadable PDF linked from the CHHS website.

The plan's stated goals

The site describes the plan as advancing four connected priorities:

• Strengthen and grow ranked academic programs — continuing to advance CHHS's "highly ranked academic programs."
• Extend research impact — building on "excellence in research."
• Build strong community partnerships — continuing to develop relationships with community partners.
• Diversify and grow resources — expanding support through grants and philanthropy.

These goals are framed around a community-focused vision, with the college stating its broader purpose is to advance health equity and well-being for all.

The context behind the plan

The strategic plan sits within a college that describes itself as SDSU's fourth-largest, with:

The six schools are Exercise and Nutritional Sciences; Nursing; Physical Therapy; Public Health; Social Work; and Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.

The college also points to community impact data as part of its positioning: more than 115,000 lbs of food donated to fight nutrition insecurity in San Diego, over 50% of the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency workforce comprising CHHS graduates, and 12 centers and institutes in San Diego.

How to read the plan

The plan is presented as a downloadable PDF on the CHHS site ("Download Our Strategic Plan"). If your goal is to check alignment with your own interests — whether a program of study, a research collaboration, or a funding relationship — the PDF is the primary source, since the website summarizes the vision and goals rather than reproducing the full objectives. The college's framing of the plan as guiding "decisions" and resource growth over three years means the goals are directional: they indicate where CHHS intends to concentrate effort and investment through 2028, not a fixed list of completed commitments.